Armed with shop-bought cake and anecdotal bonhomie, David Cameron popped into the Test Match Special commentary bunker for a chinwag with two men he addressed as “Aggers” and “Boycott”. He informed them about his difficulties with his bowling (“I’ve got a bad shoulder from playing tennis”) and treated listeners to his best Yorkshire accent (“’E ’asn’t got ’is elbow out!”).

Mr Cameron – or, as we should probably refer to him in this context, Cammers – was asked why more people hadn’t taken up sport since the Olympics. “Only year one,” breezed Cammers, ever the optimist. “Good results on school sports. Good result on the venue. Sold Britain overseas… Lot of investment coming in… Lot of deals done…”

He then veered off into a jaunty anecdote about “my new friend Vladimir Putin” – surely Vladders, or Pooters – who, during Cammers’s trip to Russia in spring, had apparently kept trying to cajole Cammers, without success, into taking part in macho sports with him. Cammers does like to josh about how macho Vladders is. Earlier this month he joked that Vladders had wanted to conduct the G8 negotiations “bare-chested on horseback. I managed to negotiate him down to smart casual.”

What fun to be a fly on the wall as Cammers and Vladders swap matey banter.

“You are play tennis? But I thought you are marry to woman? Come, Mr David. We are play game for the real men. We are have boxing match with the bear.”

“Honestly, Mr President, nothing I’d like better, but I’m afraid I promised my wife that my days of boxing with bears were behind me. Swore on my children’s lives – no more boxing with bears for me. Don’t want to cross the wife, ha ha! Much fiercer than a bear, ha ha!”

“Your wife are problem? You need her eliminate?”

We also learnt that Cammers had instructed an underling to slip him updates on the Test score during Cabinet yesterday, but when the underling tiptoed in clutching a slip of paper everyone assumed it was news of the royal baby. Disappointment all round when they found out it was only the cricket – except from Ken Clarke, who was glad to hear the score because, said Cammers, “he was supposed to be at Lord’s” anyway.

It must be said, Cammers sounded an awful lot happier talking about cricket than he does about politics. Watch out, Aggers. Come summer 2015 your job might be under threat.